V H R. 15. Ephefians, Chapa. 299 There is co the conttitutingof man, three things: a. A foul. 2. A body. 3. A perfonall union of thefe two to one man : So there is, i. one foul, even theSpirit; 2. onebody; the head, Chrift ; the members, every beleever : 3. a concurring of thefe to make one myfticall perfon, the which is called Chrift myfticall 5 and all the beleeving of all ages fhall makebut this one Chrift. How doch it reprove ftrangenefí'e, fhyneffe, contention, hatred, unmercifulneffee &c. What union is this? Or how are we of Chrifts body e It doch teach us to Peck the good oneofanother, to do honour one to another : Beafts will goare and doffe amongft themfelves,but who ever violenced himfclf? Again, feeing we are one man, and fo members one of another, it teacheth care for the whole, fellow- feeling in joy and heavineffe, I Cor. I2. 26, 27. Newman.] This is a confideration, that if it meetus everyday, we muff not balk ; it cloth teach us, what is the conditionofailfuchas come to be in Chrifl, they arefueh as muffbe renewed ; fuch, with whom all old things mutt grow out of acquaintance. Whofever is inChrift, is a new creature, z Cor.5.17. Now to underftand this, mark what it is to be an old one, and that ftandeth in two things : a. Tobe in flefhly corruption, in blindneffe, unrighteoufnefT, unholincfl'e,to be overfpread withdarkneffe, and the deceivable lulls of fin. . z. To be under the difference, and in the adminiftration of' out- ward things. As in the outward man, there is difference of country, of liberty, of wealth, of learning, &c. Now to bein Chrift a new man,is a. to have the fpirit ofour minds rencwed,cur wills altered,our affections fanc`ified; 2. to be made dead to the admiring of all outward things, fwallowed up in the acknow- ledgement of nothing but Jefus Chrift ; and this the Scripturecon- firmeth, which maketh the new man to Rand, r. in reftoring the Imageof God 2. in ceafingof all outward refpects, Chrift coming in the room of them all, and beingall in all : NeitherCircumcifion nor unciriumcifionavaileth,but a newcreature,Gal.3. Neither Jew norGreci- an, male norfemale,bist Chrifl is al in J. It is with us as withwilde Olives graffs,which grow up to change, according to the flock into which they are ingraffed : Thus it is with the faithfUl, who finde, that fence they knewChrift effelually, their mindes, wills , and affections have been changed, they have not thought fo highly of outward things, as when they knew nobetter. Nay, they acknowledge no man as bleffed, according to outward things. ifyehave knownChrift after theffelk, henceforth knowye himno mere, 2 Cor. 5.16. Their eyes aredoled upon the world as a crucified thing to them,and theirhearts and affections are fet on Chrift, and the thingswherein Chrift abideth. D d 2 This See Cor. ie. la, r;. 2. Dolt. All that have todo with Chris, muff be renewed. Old man, what. New, what. Col.;. r r. Gal. s.6; A
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